Undercover officers posing as streetwalkers targeted the demand rather than the supply in what the Maui Police Department dubbed Operation Reversal of Fortune, arresting 12 alleged "johns" in two areas.

Vice officers arrested three men Friday in Lahaina, and nine over the Sept. 7-8 weekend in Wailuku.

That means Maui police have arrested more "johns" in the last two weeks than prostitutes in the last seven years.